Our good friend Kane at Evilution as of today has done what the Times and various other sites have started to do and put some content behind a paywall, but the Evilution site is rather inexpensive for what you get. Just £10 per year gets you full access to the site and you’ll be supporting someone who has done a lot for the smart community. It costs money to make available content available like he does, and instead of putting ads on the site like some people do this keeps it ad-free. Quite a lot of content is still free, plus he’s done some redesign too which makes content easier to find.

Head on over to http://www.evilution.co.uk to see the newly updated site. If you do sign up – and you should if you even think about taking a socket to your smart car – think of it as being the cheapest technical service manual you’ve ever bought.

Smart has unveiled its fourjoy concept car before the motorshow at Frankfurt.

If you can sort of squint a bit, and pretend there’s doors, you might be able to kind of guess what the new forfour is going to look like. It’ll likely take quite a lot of styling cues from the concept, but toned down a bit. The interior is likely to be vastly different from this concept, I just hope they offer it up with a chrome tridion.

Well it’s been a long time since I owned a smart car, 5 years nearly, coincidentally almost the same age as my son.

So what did I have, and where did they go?

The first one I had was our fortwo (actually it was just called a smart coupé), it was an X reg, left hand drive, and we’d spent far too much money on it keeping it running, it’d needed a new engine due to it burning oil, a lot. I believe it’s now driving around Greece.

From The One Show on good old Auntie Beeb. They did a survey in association with Which? magazine to find the cars with best and worst visibility when you're sitting inside the car. The new smart fortwo came out tops!